Book reviewers should be reticent about using the terms “definitive” or “comprehensive” to describe a work of scholarship. After all, no matter the topic, there will always be something new to say, more sources will come to light, and new research methodologies will make us reevaluate past interpretations. But, in very rare cases, a book is published that sets such a high standard of scholarship that not only does it surpass all previous work on a topic, but nothing new can be said without reading it. Jorge Giovannetti-Torres's book Black British Migrants in Cuba is such a work. Earlier studies discuss particular aspects of black British Caribbean migration to, and life in, Cuba. But Giovannetti-Torres's book is the definitive and most comprehensive work on black British migration to Cuba because no other work provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of why black British subjects went to Cuba, where they settled...
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November 01 2019
Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948
Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948
. By Giovannetti-Torres, Jorge L.. Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2018
. Photograph. Map. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 305 pp. Cloth
, $105.00.Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (4): 765–767.
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Robert Whitney; Black British Migrants in Cuba: Race, Labor, and Empire in the Twentieth-Century Caribbean, 1898–1948. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 November 2019; 99 (4): 765–767. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7787489
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